Daily Archives: January 12, 2011

Red and black hand sewn leather? Is it a car? Is it a Ferrari? No, it’s a phone, but it is inspired by Ferrari, and carries its brand, alongside the Vertu logo. The Ascent Ferrari GT is Vertu’s latest Ferrari branded phone, and all leather aside, it’s made out of...

There’s eye-candy for car fanatics, and then there’s the Audi R8 e-Tron electric supercar, which is so sweet qualifying it as a type of sugar would be criminal. All matte black aluminum and carbon fiber body, it has few yellow highlights and even these manage to come out looking good....

I don’t know if the thought of flashing light onto my brain is strangely attractive, just confusing, or downright scary. The Valkee Bright Light Headset proposes just that – it’s a treatment device which beams light through your ears, based on the idea that tickling the brain surface with bright...

Mattel is throwing its weight around with a totally unnecessary and hopefully ill-fated Angry Birds plastic play-set that follows the playing model of the computer game – launching birds at a makeshift pig fortress. But what’s a fun, addictive and terribly repetitive virtual endeavor will get tiring fast. Why pick...

If GM’s EN-V vehicle, which was unveiled last week, looks familiar to you, don’t worry, you don’t stand alone. It uses the same battery technology found in the PUMA, which GM announced earlier 2009, and if you ask us takes many a design cue, though this version is much more...

The human body has up to 5 senses, 3 of which can be used to watch a movie or play a video game. The fine folks of ScentScience are looking to add a 4th, scent, to your video game setup with something called the ScentScape. It’s a desktop sized device...

Some books are precious keep sakes while others weigh as much as a gym dumbell. Enter the Ion Book Saver. It digitizes any book or magazine reducing your backpacks pay load or the possibility of destroying a book in transport. The device is actually pretty rudimentary in effect. It consists...

[rating:4/5] Pros: Easy to setup and use Vast array of apps that fulfills almost any bedside need Bright screen, loud alarm and USB input and headphone jack Cons: Pandora sometimes stutters during playback Touchscreen is not capacitive Video plays at an unwatchable frame rate At first glance the Chumby can probably best be described...